The improved weather saw a wintering Firecrest emerge from the flooded sallows, being seen in scrub along the Back Path, three Chiffchaff were also active with the Cetti's Warbler singing by the Car Park.
Elsewhere 120 Common Gull, 11 Greenshank and a Red-breasted Merganser were in the estuary, with two of the presumed Scandinavian littoralis Rock Pipit starting to reveal their true colours in The Bight.
Other Wildlife: A continuing increase in insect activity with several Buff-tailed Bumblebee on the wing along with a few Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax, a Hairy-eyed Syrphus S. torvus and the scarcely seen adult of the Oak Marble Gall Wasp Andricus kollari.
Oak Marble Gall Wasp Andricus kollari - Alan Keatley %20240226.JPG)
Hairy-eyed Syrphus S. torvus - Alan Keatley
At ground level a Weasel ran across the Buffer Zone with even smaller hunters including Turf Ant Tetramorium caespitum, the jumping spider Euophryum frontalis, Sand-bear Arctosa perita and Leopard-bear Spider A. leopardus and the wolf spider Alopecosa cuneata.
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| Alopecosa cuneata - Alan Keatley |
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| Turf Ant Tetramorium caespitum - Alan Keatley |
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| Euophryum frontalis - Alan Keatley |
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| Leopard-bear Spider Arctosa leopardus - Alan Keatley |
A range of beetles included the sun beetle Amara equestris, the darkling beetle Phaleria cadaverina plus Red Dock Weevil Apion frumentarium and Black Marram Weevil Otiorhynchus atropterus.
Red Dock Weevil Apion frumentarium - Alan Keatley 
Phaleria cadaverina - Alan Keatley %20240226.JPG)
Black Marram Weevil Otiorhynchus atropterus - Alan Keatley
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